María Amparo Escandón

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María Amparo Escandón (born June 30, 1957 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is an American writer , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

María Amparo Escandón's maternal great-grandfather was the vice president of Mexico in the last years of the dictator Porfirio Díaz at the beginning of the 20th century . An ancestor of the paternal line in the 18th century was the Spanish nobleman José de Escandón , 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, who founded the then Mexican province of Nuevo Santander against the resistance of the indigenous Indian population and became the first governor there. Her father was a building contractor, her mother was responsible for training in the Mexican Ministry of Labor.

Escandón grew up as the oldest of four children in Mexico City. She had to change schools frequently because of disciplinary problems. At the age of thirteen she was sent to a boarding school in Minnesota , USA , where she learned about rural America and also the English language. After her return home she studied communication in Mexico City from 1977 to 1982 at the Universidad Anáhuac and the Universidad Nuevo Mundo (UNUM).

After a brief marriage, Escandón went to the United States and co-founded the Spanish-speaking US advertising agency Acento. Her business partner was Benito Martínez Creel, who later became her husband and father of their two children. From 1983 to 1995 she studied ceramics at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles . In the following years she published a few short stories in Spanish and, from 1993, she also took courses in creative writing at the Evening and Distance University of the University of California, Los Angeles Extension (UCLA). Since 1994 she has been imparting her knowledge in the art of writing in English at the UCLA Extension .

Escandón has written the scripts for two of her books so far. The film Santitos , which she also produced with her own company and based on her first novel Esperanza's Box of Saints , won several awards. With her advertising agency, she supports the American Children's Tumor Foundation , among others . She works with the California prison administration and has arranged for the establishment of readers' circles for the inmates of Mexican origin.

Publications

  • Esperanza's Box of Saints . Simon & Schuster, New York City 1999, ISBN 0-684-85614-X .
  • González & Daughter Trucking Company . Three Rivers Press, New York City 2005, ISBN 1-4000-9735-5 .
    • German by Heike Smets: González & Daughter, Trucking Company . Edition Cologne, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-936791-71-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Highway to the lecture hall. In: FAZ . November 9, 2010, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Escandón, María Amparo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, screenwriter, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico